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TEASING APPLE’S FANBOIS, T-Mobile has announced its prices for the Iphone that you can’t buy from it online, the now legendary Iphone 4, or Flaw as we like to call it.

If you want a handset with a dodgy antenna, software that shows incorrect signal strength bars, a screen that might have yellow blotches and a proximity sensor that will shut off calls then the Iphone 4 is for you. And if you have an Ipad, forget about swopping the micro-SIMs that both it and the Iphone 4 use because Apple made sure they were not compatible, so you have to get two contracts. A fact for which the network operators no doubt secretly praise Steve Jobs.

For those who find the Iphone 4 irresistible, T-Mobile’s prices range from £259 for the 16GB model at £25 a month, with 100 minutes, 100 texts and 500MB of data, to £99 for the 32GB version at £60 a month. This provides 3,000 minutes, 500 texts and 1GB of data. All contracts are for 24-months and T-Mobile’s “flexible booster” is also available. This allows customers to add minutes, data allowance and texts.

On pay as you go the Iphone 4 16GB can be purchased for £499 with £10 a month “top up” for free texts but the 32GB model is not available. T-Mobile announced its prices three weeks after Orange, which it is merging with to become the provider called Everything Everywhere.

However the handset is nowhere to be seen for anyone trying to purchase either model from the network’s website. It is still asking for customers to register their interest two weeks after the 24 June official launch of the product. And while the website shows both white and black models you still can’t buy a white one anywhere on planet Earth. µ